Manage Your IT Infrastructure with
Open Source
Presented by GroundWork Open Source Solutions and Forrester Vice President and Research Director, Laura Koetzle
Tuesday, December 2, 2004
11:00-12:00 PST
2:00-3:00 EST
Learn from the experts how to leverage the power and cost savings of open source to manage your IT infrastructure:
| Why open source makes sense for network and systems management | |
| Which open source tools to consider in your IT infrastructure | |
| How a large construction company improved IT availability and performance using an all open source monitoring solution |
Presenters:
Laura Koetzle, Vice President & Research Director with Forrester Research, will discuss:
| Pain points of IT management that open source software addresses | |
| Current dynamics of IT management that make it ripe for open source solutions | |
| Why you should consider open source solutions for IT management |
Sam Lamonica, IT Director of Rudolph & Sletten, a large West Coast builder, will share how he leveraged open source IT monitoring to:
| Increase systems uptime from 80% to 99.99% | |
| Improve visibility into the company’s IT infrastructure | |
| Increase ability to pinpoint problems before failures occurred | |
| Improve capacity planning and leverage with suppliers | |
| Implement a working solution in just weeks—not months |
Bob Fanini, CEO, GroundWork Open Source Solutions, and Dave Lilly, COO, GroundWork Open Source Solutions,will be on hand to address:
| How to begin deploying open source tools for IT infrastructure monitoring and management | |
| Why open source solutions result in a dramatically lower cost of ownership compared to commercial tools | |
| How to leverage the flexibility of open source to manage multiple monitoring tool environments |